Jade City 1-8: Bero Haters Unite
We're back from hiatus with a new season and new series, the Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee, starting with Jade City. We discuss the world-building of Kekon, the power of Jade, and the…
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Harrow the Ninth 37 – 42: Necromantic STIs
We're reaching the sections of the book where we are tee-heeing and steepling our fingers, connivingly, at the reveals happening in these chapters and the coffee-shop AU fanfictions happening in Harrow's mind. Your hosts…
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Why I Love The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
When you’ve read a lot of novels, or this could likely apply to a lot of other media too, your brain starts to recognize the patterns of storytelling that will lead to certain outcomes,…
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A Tide of Black Steel Review – A Vanguard for Violence
When an Anthony Ryan book comes out, I read it. So imagine my excitement when a sequel to The Covenant of Steel series, a trilogy beloved by me, was announced. When I began the…
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The Devils Review – Monsters No Worse Than Men
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie feels fresh while still retaining the style of writing the author has become famous for. It’s set in a new world, our world in an alternate timeline Europe, where…
Read story ↗The Discord of Gods 71-80: Ompher is a Nepo Baby
On this episode we discuss chapters 71-80 of The Discord of Gods, the fifth book in Jenn Lyon's A Chorus of Dragons. We're close to the very end now, and events get near apocalyptic…
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Wind and Truth Review – Journey to Understanding
The end of Arc 1 of Brandon Sanderson’s The Stormlight Archive is here, and Wind and Truth feels enormous, metaphorically and physically. The release of The Way of Kings feels like another lifetime, and yet just…
Read story ↗Off the Books: Sung-il Kim and Anton Hur
On this Off the Books, we are interviewing Sung-il Kim, author of Blood of the Old Kings, and Anton Hur (Toward Eternity, transl. Blood of the Old Kings, I Want to Die but I…
Read story ↗Bookling: Blood of the Old Kings
On this Bookling, we discuss Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim, translated by Anton Hur. Multi-eyed dragons, fiery swords, mech-like war machines, and a curmudgeon sorcerer trapped in a mindscape are just…
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The Daughters’ War Review – Mouth of the Storm
In Christopher Buhelman's The Daughters' War, Galva dom Braga, a knight from, tells the tale of her time in the third goblin war to who we can assume is her traveling companion, Kinch, from…
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